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<blockquote data-quote="GTNavyNuke" data-source="post: 52886" data-attributes="member: 322"><p>Since the draft is this weekend, I've been cruising the Perfect Game site. Here's a fun (free) article on 50 years of draft highlights. <a href="http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=9993" target="_blank">http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=9993</a></p><p></p><p>Since I'm an Orioles fan and hate the Yankees and the way they accelerated MLB into fantasy money ball, I liked this snippet:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">"The New York Yankees sent shock waves through the industry in 1991, when they signed North Carolina prep lefthander <strong>Brien Taylor</strong>, the No. 1 overall pick that year, to a $1.55 million bonus—almost three times the existing record. The old mark of $575,000 was set in 1989 by John Olerud, a third-round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays, and matched earlier in 1991 by Mike Kelly, drafted second by the Atlanta Braves. Taylor’s contract, signed just hours before he was set to enroll at Louisburg (N.C.) Junior College, triggered an unprecedented wave of bonus escalation that would continue largely unabated over the better part of the next two decades. <em>The Yankees got nothing for their investment in Taylor as his promising career careened downhill, topping in Double-A, after he injured his shoulder in a fight.</em>"</p><p></p><p>Sounds like a UGAg prospect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTNavyNuke, post: 52886, member: 322"] Since the draft is this weekend, I've been cruising the Perfect Game site. Here's a fun (free) article on 50 years of draft highlights. [url]http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=9993[/url] Since I'm an Orioles fan and hate the Yankees and the way they accelerated MLB into fantasy money ball, I liked this snippet: [INDENT]"The New York Yankees sent shock waves through the industry in 1991, when they signed North Carolina prep lefthander [B]Brien Taylor[/B], the No. 1 overall pick that year, to a $1.55 million bonus—almost three times the existing record. The old mark of $575,000 was set in 1989 by John Olerud, a third-round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays, and matched earlier in 1991 by Mike Kelly, drafted second by the Atlanta Braves. Taylor’s contract, signed just hours before he was set to enroll at Louisburg (N.C.) Junior College, triggered an unprecedented wave of bonus escalation that would continue largely unabated over the better part of the next two decades. [I]The Yankees got nothing for their investment in Taylor as his promising career careened downhill, topping in Double-A, after he injured his shoulder in a fight.[/I]"[/INDENT] Sounds like a UGAg prospect. [/QUOTE]
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